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Date:
Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:50:39 -0400
Subject:
Re: Coming Clean on Beethoven
From:
Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Nicolas Croze-Orton wrote:

>...  I think the Beethoven violin concerto is one of the most
>boring concerto`s ever written.  Any other list member`s on my side?

He's not a list member but the critic B.H. Haggin wrote in his *Listener's
Companion and Record Guide*, "Except for the beautiful writing in the
development section of the first movement, at the solo violin's second
entrance, this work would be regarded with less awe if Beethoven's name
were not attached to it."  However, he also wrote, "No other violinist has
made of the violin's first entrance in Beethoven's Violin Concerto what
Szigeti made of it, in the first (1932) performance he recorded...under
Bruno Walter, with his dynamic inflection of the very first phrases, his
bfreath taking crescendo of energy in the ascending rush of two-note
figures to the conclusion of the passage; and no one has achieved anyting
like his similarly dynamic playing in the rest of the work."

FWIW, it's my favorite violin concerto.

Walter Meyer '48

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